draft

Re: draft


None...unless you are eligible for the draft. :wink:

One Advantage: more troops available.

One Disadvantage: Your country will (or at least should) hate you, because you upset the family--the most basic unit of the country.

As currently authorized, The Selective Service Administration may at the direction of Congress conscript from among the pool of statutorily elgible individuals meeting the requisite qualifications a levy in numbers as may be required to meet such recruitment needs of the military as are unmet by voluntary enlistment. The authorized term of duty for conscripts has 2 components; 2 years of active duty followed by both active and inactive reserve obligation.

Given that the current Congressionally-authorized personnel requirements of the contemporary US military are more than met through voluntary enlistment, and given that the increasingly technology-heavy nature of the contemporary US military requires training and proficiency establishment periods often in excess of 1 year, even 2 years or more for some billets, and given that unit cohesion, mission-readiness, and troop morale are negatively impacted by rapid institutionalized turnover of experienced for inexperienced personnel, there is no currently derivable benefit to the US military from conscription as it is authorized.

The only practicable effective means of increasing manpower within the contemporary US military would entail Congressional authorization of and funding for additional personnel.

A US Draft is a non-issue to any but those wholly ignorant of, or who choose to disregard, the reality of the matter. The only benefit to be derived is that accruing to particular partisan elements by their fomenting rumor of same. The clamor of the chickens aside, the sky is not falling, nor is it about to.

For those of you too lazy to read Timber's entire post, I shall summarize.

Draft=Bad=destruction of america

And the scary part is it's VERY probable.

SCoates, your entirely erroneous comment confirms the point of my referenced post. Only the ignorant and the ideologically blinded see an impending draft.

For those of you too lazy to read Timber's last post, I shall summarize:

Thanks, SCoates, you are intelligent, rational, and helpful.

Drawing inference from recent evidence, I would surmise that Scoates is more ideologically aligned with The Democratic Party than the Republican Party. If that in fact is the case, I would submit that such a mindset as apparently is evidenced by Scoates per recent criticisms directed toward my pronouncements goes a long way toward explaining the response of The Electorate, local, state, and national, over the past decade or so, to The Democratic Party.

Are you kidding? First off, I'm as far as can be from a democrat.
Secondly, my comments were all in good fun.

So were mine ... banter for banter ... mebbe I came off mean ... didn't intend that, sorry if I offended. I'm sorta clumsy sometimes. I prolly shoulda sprinkled some smilies in there a place or two.